Making Salt Water Drinkable Just Got 99 Percent Cheaper

nanobots hunting for atoms to produce fat,sugar,proteins directly from the soil
making hydrocarbon fuel from the carbon and hydrogen in the oceans
Nanobots that hunt out and kill virus,bacteria,cancer--and make your arteries plaque free

eventually a nanobot WiFi interface between you and the net-and everyone else.

Precisely my conjecture.....
What about radioactive particles?
And if it works they could crash some of this ito the fukishima problem.....flitering exhaust sea waters....
or other applications....
Truely amazing!
And a thin sheet of this stuff will stop a bullet too?
Pretty far out stuff!

Japan discovered a way of using filters to mine heavy metals out of sea water years ago. ("Radiation" comes from the heavy metals.)

But all that really has to be done is to pump sea water into greenhouse like holding tanks and use solar heat to evaporate the fresh water, minus the
heavy metals, which are left behind. Unfortunately you can't patent the greenhouse.

The next thing Lockheed Martin will be announcing is the greenhouse bombing cruise missile. Hey, ya gotta make a buck.

This is just the most blatant kind of Military Industrial Complex hype. It's a way of spinning weapons development into a producer of "useful
technology" in order to be able to justify the unjustifiable, more ludicrous spending on military technology.

The Military Industrial Complex not only puts the cart before the horse but it only adds the horse at opportune moments when and if they arise. If at
all possible it ignores the horse altogether.

I was watching that survival show about Cody Lundeen (sp?) and he did a show stuck on an island, he showed how to make drinkable water from salt water
with scuba gear. Somehow he heated the scuba tank and rigged it so a hose came out and as the salt water heated it would turn into steam. He said the
salt would be left behind where the drinkable water would be steam. He ended up collecting the steam water into the scuba goggles and let and behold
he drank it.

I'm sure there's many ways out there to turn it into drinkable water. Any can vary from very cheap to very expensive. I like this thread.
Interesting indeed.

Originally posted by jziegler
I was watching that survival show about Cody Lundeen (sp?) and he did a show stuck on an island, he showed how to make drinkable water from salt water
with scuba gear. Somehow he heated the scuba tank and rigged it so a hose came out and as the salt water heated it would turn into steam. He said the
salt would be left behind where the drinkable water would be steam. He ended up collecting the steam water into the scuba goggles and let and behold
he drank it.

Yes that is distillation - very simple, very old - very slow if all you have is standard sunlight, or it gets expensive if you concentrate the
sunlight.

an attempt to make it commercial is the seawater greenhouse that uses seawater both to
humidify and distills it to provide fresh water. dosen't look overly successful though.

Wow that's really great news, L&M usually don't sell things cheap though, so basically this amounts to, hey we just made it cheaper for desalination
plants so they can make more money off you charging the same price while costing them less heh.

Also with all the $%^& we have dumped into the ocean , will this also remove 500 million gallons of correxall from BP, the poisons from the oil itself
and all the lovely fukashima radiation ?

Wow that's really great news, L&M usually don't sell things cheap though, so basically this amounts to, hey we just made it cheaper for desalination
plants so they can make more money off you charging the same price while costing them less heh.

Seems unlikely - it is not the cost of the material that costs all the money for desalination - it is the cost of the energy required to run it.

the savings here are in energy costs.

Also with all the $%^& we have dumped into the ocean , will this also remove 500 million gallons of correxall from BP, the poisons from the oil
itself and all the lovely fukashima radiation ?

This is very very good news to hear.
No matter whom runs the show this sounds like an earth saving idea and method to me.
After reading the link you so kindly provided I came to the conclusion that RO filtration is one of the greatest inventions ever created. Not to
mention that we happen to have a 5 stage RO system in our home. :-)

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